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[[Morphology]] refers to word formation, which consists of two main categories: (1) by adding grammatical suffixes to words (e.g., ''-ing'' and ''-ed'' verb forms, and (2) by adding prefixes and suffixes (e.g. ''nation+al, itner+nation+al+ism'').
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# Grammatical morphology, or inflectional morphology: adding grammatical suffixes to words. In English, this is mainly limited to verb conjugation and in noun forms: the ''-ing'' forms of verbs (participles and gerunds like ''sailing''), and the past tense forms like ''-ed'' (''sailed'') and irregular verb forms (e.g., ''swam, swum, taken'').
 
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# Derivational morphology, or word formation by adding prefixes and suffixes; e.g. ''nation --> national, international.''
 

Revision as of 15:16, 11 June 2016

Morphology refers to word formation, which consists of two main categories: (1) by adding grammatical suffixes to words (e.g., -ing and -ed verb forms, and (2) by adding prefixes and suffixes (e.g. nation+al, itner+nation+al+ism).

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